Oh yeah one more EMBARRASSING one: " Breaking in my clips on a first date"

I'm not sure what I was thinking but I guy I was kinda interested at the time asked if I wanted to go for a ride....so knowing myself and that I don't usually turn down an opportunity to ride I said, "yes". However there was one minor thing: I had just switched out my pedals and was just breaking in clips for the first time. DUN DUN DUN Dunnnnnnnnnnn!

I told him I would go but that I was breaking in clips for the first time and that i would probably get "dumped" multiple times.-- He didn't really understand what I was talking about( at the time he rode a MTB with baskets), but he said he was cool with it. So we headed out on the green way and I did fine for about 5 miles then we approached a stop and sure enough I forgot to clip out, and "BAM"!!! I imagined it looked much like a stiff animal that was being tipped over in a state of peaceful sleep.

I got back on with a minor gash to the elbow, and we cycled on.... made in about another 10 miles until I tipped over again. But the final clincher was when we headed into the sculpture garden up a grassy-rocky landscaped hill which wasn't really the ideal terrain for my bike to begin with, then upon reaching the top while messing around trying to switch gears we came to an immediate stop at a BUSY intersection!! Yup, you called it, I got my a** handed to me... It was totally embarrassing but when we arrived at the top everything happened so quickly I didn't have time to clip out and I got completely dumped unto the shoulder of the street. I musta fell hard because I tried for the life of me to unclip but I couldn't break my cleat free from my clip. I WAS STUCK on my bike laying in the street!! (I felt like the old lady on the:" HELP, I've fallen and I can't get up infomercial" --( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdh3OusFF-k -fast fwd to sec 24) So, he had to hop off his bike and lift me AND my bike up cuz I couldn't clip out! It was awesome.... one of my prouder moments!! The next day I woke up with a HUGE bruise on my thigh the size of a grapefruit!!